Sanitary receiver for hair clippings



--Feb..,26, 1935. LQsQPosT SANITARY RECEIVER FOR HAIR CLIPPIHGS Filed July 24, 1933 Patented Feb. 26, 1935 I v 1 UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE SANITARY RECEIVER FOR- HAIR CLIPPINGS Laura Sanner Post, Washington, D. 0.

Application July 24, 1933, Serial No. 682,015 4 Claims. (01. 2-50) This present invention is a sanitary hair re-= Throughout the several forms of the drawing ceiver and collector useful in connection with the like parts, even in modified forms, will bear like cutting or trimming of hair in ladies coiffure or characters of reference, and will be so referred to beauty shops, mens barber shops or the like. in the description.

5 The present practice is to use a mantle or apron In all forms of the invention as illustrated, the 5 which is placed about the neck and falls over device is fashioned from a sheet of paper or the the shoulders to cover the garment, the hair falllike which may be of a general rectangular ing to the floor and later swept up, resulting in a shape cut inwardly from one edge 11 thereof on messy, unsanitary condition in the shops or home an-arcuate line, which intersects said edge at both 10 and which is highly objectionable to alarge numends of the line for the purposeof providing a 10 her of persons. Also, these mantles are rarely, cut-away portion 12 which may be fitted about if ever, cleaned or sterilized after each hair cutthe neck of the person. For purposes of conventing but are used repeatedly on one person after ience, but not necessarily, the other edges of the another, and often are shaken in the room prepaper sheet 10 may be rounded, as indicated at 5 ceding each use allowing hair and other dirt to 13, 14 and 15, or the sheet may be oval shaped. 5 float through the air of the room or fall on the This sheet 10, so produced, and when fitted floor. around the neck of the wearer, may have the end While various forms of hair collectors have portions a at the neck opening 12 secured to-' been purposed for receiving and collecting the get'her by any suitable means, such as a pin or hair to prevent it from falling on the floor, these other type of fastener which results in the area 2 are not used, so far as applicant is aware, beof sheet adjacent the neck extending downwardly cause of their cost, construction, weight, cumberover the shoulder of the wearer. The marginal someness in use or because they are intended for outer edge portions of the sheet adjacent the repeated use and necessitate sterilization before edges 13, 14 and 15, may then be turned up, as

each use in order to be sanitary. illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, to form a trough- 25 The object of the present invention is the prolike receptacle, extending around the neck, over vision of a most inexpensive hair collector, prefthe shoulders. under the back of the head and erably a flexible sheet material, such for example, under the chin of the wearer. as paper or Cellophane, paper toweling, etc., In order to facilitate this turning up or chanhaving self-sustaining properties to form a subneling of the paper sheet, when fastened about 30 stantially annular trough-like receptacle, particuthe neck in the manner illustrated and described, larly when creased, folded or deformed out of it may be scored in any desired manner which will its normal flat position and which may be packed accomplish this end;- but for purposes of this for sale in packages of superposed sheeting, and disclosure three forms have been illustrated in readily gathered up after each hair cutting, with Figures 3, 4 and 5. This scoring, as shown in 35 collected hair therein, and destroyed. Figures 3 and 4, and folding as shown in Figure The'above object may be accomplished by the 5, will permit the blank 10 to automatically asseveral examples illustrated in the accompanying sume the channel shape illustrated in Figures 1 drawing, in which: and 2, when applied about the neck of the person.

40 Figure 1 shows the invention as applied in use; To provide comfort to the wearer as well as to 40 Fig. 2 is a front side of the invention, in reduced assist the area b of the paper material to assume size, and assuming the shape it has when applied a dishedlike shape between the upwardly extendabout the neck of a person; ing marginal edge portions 0, d and e, and the Fig. 3 is a plan view of a flat sheet or blank edge of the neck opening 12, this edge 12 has which provides the hair c'ollector shown in Figs. been provided with a multiplicity of inwardly ex- 45 1 and 2, and illustrating one mannerinwhich the tending slashes or cuts to provide a fringe sheet may be scored or creased to facilitate its This fringe also permits the collector to be tightshaping into or permitting it to assume a troughly engaged with the neck without discomfort so as like shape about the neck, when applied; and to prevent the hair from passing between it and Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating the neck. 50 another manner in which the sheet, which forms In Figure 3 the scoring lines 16, 16a and 1'? are the collector, may be scored; and shown as substantially straight lines, the lines 16 Fig. 5 illustrates a further modification of the and 16a extending from the edge 11 and on opblank shown in Fig. 4, wherein it is illustrated as posite sides of the neck portion 12, respectively,

being folded. to the opposite edge 14, and the line 1'7 extend- 55 20 permits pleating or puckering of the material between the end .portions of the scoring lines 16, 16a and 17, when the sheet 10 is being applied to the neck.

In Figure 4 the sheet or blank 10 of the hair collector is provided with a scoring line 18 which is more or less U-shaped with the ends of the U extending. to the edge 11 of the sheet and embracing the neck portion 12. With this type of scoring and with certain types of paper, it may be necessary to deform the edges-of the blank at the points a: with the fingers so as to produce the effect, shown at a: in Fig. l, and which deformation is provided for or permitted by the scoring 20 in Figure 3 in conjunction with the adjacent portions of the scoring-line 16, 16a and 17.

In Figure'5, the sheet 10 thereof is substantially the same as the sheet 10 in Figure 3 with its scoring, but is folded on itself,first inwardly on the line 17 and then again inwardly on the lines 16 and 16a. The whole blank then being further folded uponitself upon the medial line 21 andfthe neck end portions a being folded upon themselves, as indicated at 22. The collector as shown in Fig. 5 readily ,assumes a trough-like shape when unfolded and the edge 12 has been brought tightly about the neck of the wearer and the end portions a fastened, as indicated in Figures 1 and 2.

The paper blanks, as'shown in Figures 3 and 4, are normally packed and packaged in superimposed relation in a flat, .unfolded condition for storage and sale purposes, one being used as required for each haid cutting operation; and the blanks as shown in Figure 5 are packaged in their folded condition one upon the other.

From the foregoing it will "be observed that the present invention is a very"'simple and economical sanitary hair receiver comprising a paper sheet or the like, shaped to provide a neck opening 12 and when fitted about the neck and fastened in position will provide upwardly and outwardly extending marginal portions or wings c, d and e above the shoulders and projecting beyond the head to receive and retain hair clippings, and which can be readily removed and rolled up with the hair-clippings therein, and destroyed; and which can be packaged and sold after the manner of the paper towel or toilet paper and will entail very little more expense, if any, than the package of hand-paper towels, while having the additional useful advantages of being extremely sanitary.

While several forms of the blank have been shown which facilitates cupping or troughing of the blank, when applied to the wearer, it is to be understood that this scoring or folding may be varied, or in, some cases eliminated, when desired without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is:

1. A sanitary receiver for hair clippings comprising a substantially flat blank of flexible sheet material having self sustaining properties and having a neck opening therein larger than the neck of the wearer, whereby when the neck opening is fitted about the neck the sheet will assume an annular trough-like formation, and means between the edges of the neck opening and the outer edge of the sheet for facilitating the formation of said trough.

2. A sanitary receiver for hair clippings comprising a substantially flat sheet of paper having an edge cut-away to provide an arcuate opening larger than the neck of the wearer, whereby when the ends of the arcuate opening portion of the sheet are overlapped and fastened, the sheet will assume an annular trough-like formation, and fold lines on the sheet for facilitating the formation of said trough about the neck.

3. A sanitary receiver for hair clippings comprising a substantially flat sheet of flexible material having self-sustaining properties and having a neck opening therein larger than the neck of the wearer, whereby when the neck opening is fitted about the neck the sheet will assume an annular trough-like formation, and said sheet being folded upon itself for packaging, said lines of fold being positioned and arranged on the sheet for facilitating the formation of said trough when the sheet is unfolded and fitted about the neck.

- 4. A sanitary receiver for hair-clippings comprising a substantially flat sheet of paper having an edge cut-away to provide-an arcuate opening larger than the neck of the wearer, whereby when the ends of the arcuate opening portion of the sheet are overlapped and fastened, the sheet will assume an annular trough-like formation, and scoring on the sheet between said opening therein and the outer edge thereof for weakening the sheet and fascilitating the formation of said trough about the neck.

LAURA BANNER POST. 

